San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, March 17, 1860, Vol. 1 No.50 THE CLOUD REMOVED - Some time since a cloud was raised over the title of the Pulgas Grant, by the announcement that a deed from a daughter of the elder Arguello to the other heirs was defective. Immediately upon discovery of the defect, Mr. Mezes the agent and part owner of the Ranch, dispatched his cotenant Don Jose Ramon Arguello to Spain to procure another deed from his sister. Don Jose returned a few weeks since and brought with him a second deed, perfect in all its parts, thus removing the cloud, and leave the title on this grant among the very best in the State. DRAWING TOWARDS AN END - The famous old case of Alvin Adam v. Haskell and Woods came up before the Fourth District Court on Saturday, when the following entry was made; Ordered that the funds in the hands of the Receiver, except $4000, be distributed among the creditors. The sum of $4000 to be retained by Receiver, to bide the result of case now pending before the Supreme Court. Books and papers to be deposited with the Clerk to save further expense. S.F. Times Sheriff's Sale By virtue of an order of Sale issued out of the Twelfth Judicial District Court in and for the County of San Mateo and State of California, and to me directed and delivered, for a final judgment and Decree of Foreclosure, rendered in said Court on the eighteenth day of October, A.D. 1856, in favor of JOHN SEARLE and against JOSE DE LA CRUZ SANCHEZ, GEORGE SCARPA, MINGUEL NOE and JOSE DE JESUS NOE; an Intervenor, for the sum of two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars, ($2,834,) together with interest thereon from the date of said judgment, at the rate of three per cent per month; also the sum of two hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-seven cents, costs and disbursements, I have levied on the following property, to wit: All the undivided one tenth part of the tract of land known as the Buri Buri Rancho, together with all and singular the privileges and apputenances thereunto belonging; and also all the estate, right, title and interest which the said defendants or either of them had in or to the said premises upon the twenty-second day of June, 1855, (that being the date and delivery of said mortgage, and the recording thereof.) Together with all and singular and tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, rents, issues and profits thereof. Notice is hereby given, that on Saturday, the 7th day of April, A.D. 1860, at two o'clock, P.M., I will sell all the right, title and interest of said defendants, or either of them in and to the above described piece or parcel of land, at the door of the Court House of San Mateo County, in Redwood City, at Public Auction, for cash in hand, to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said Judgment, interests, and all costs. SILVAS HOVIOUS Sheriff San Mateo County By John Ames, Under Sheriff Redwood City, March 16, 1860 NOVEL MODE OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE REDWOODS - The enterprise of some of the shingle dealers in the Redwoods has brought out a rather unusual mode, at least for this section of country, of bringing their goods to market. It consists of a train of mules with pack-saddles, each mule carrying three bunches of shingles, estimated to contain two hundred and fifty each. Nine thousand shingles were thus brought down from the mountains the early part of last week to one of the wharves. This is the first carrying of the kind that has been done. We are informed that the plan is a speedy and much more economical one than the old plan, which was to bring them on wagons, after much time and labor were expended in getting the shingles from the gulches with unwieldy oxen. Now, the mules are loaded at the gulches, and make but a single trip to Redwood City, saving more than half the usual time of a trip with oxen. A second train similar to the one above mentioned, is being got up, and will be in operation in a few days. SENTENCE OF DEATH - Judge McKune, of Sacramento, has passed sentence of death upon Peter Lundburg, convicted of the murder of J.P. Ritzz. It was in the following words: "You are to be taken to the place from whence you came, and there be kept in close confinement, until Friday, the 13th day of April, 1860, and then be taken from there between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, and hung by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy upon your soul." As the Judge concluded the sentence he could hardly speak. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php